SAM_A_42123

Title: A message stick from Wik Mungkan Country telling the recipient to come up Archer River and bring his wife, held in the South Australian Museum

Message: Wikmuŋkan name, ma:ka. The message is indicated by incision on stick; telling recipient to come up Archer River and bring his wife; division into two parts_smaller part denotes wife

Date Created: 1953

Notes on date created: terminus ante quem

Item type: message stick in a collection

Subtype: traditional

State/Territory: QLD

Linguistic area 1: Chirila: Wik Mungkan Austlang: Y57 - Wik Mungkan Glottolog: wikm1247

Notes on linguistic areas: The origin of the message stick is Archer River, Queensland "From the Archer, Kendall, Holroyd Rivers area", p25 Wikmunkan is the "Name: (Cultural Associations) LANGUAGE" information provided by the South Australian Museum

Term for 'message stick' (or related) in language: ma:ka

Sources:

McConnel, Ursula H. 1953. "Native arts and industries on the Archer, Kendall and Holroyd Rivers, Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland."

Records of the South Australian Museum 11 (1):1-42.

Source types: journal article

Institution/Holder file: The South Australian Museum object identifier: A-42123

Collector: Donated by: McConnel, Miss U.H.

Coordinates: 15°10'25.899600"S,143°06'38.998800"E  (-15.173861, 143.110833)

Media copyright: The South Australian Museum

Notes on coordinates: Chirila centroid coordinates for Wik Mungkan

URL source 1: https://archive.org/stream/RecordsSouthAus11Sout#page/34/mode/1up

URL source 2: https://archive.org/stream/RecordsSouthAus11Sout#page/n59/mode/1up

Notes: Register says: "n.n. ma:ka [...] The message is indicated by incisions on stick" SAM has provided an image, but permission not yet secured to append it to the AMSD: SAM-A42123.tif AR: Checked against original SAM register. No new information.

Media Files:

Data Entry: Olena Tykhostup, Piers Kelly, Alexandra Roginski